Volume 3: A Tombstone Stained with Sin and Blood Chapter 148 Three rounds of investigation
"Shameful traitor!"
George said with gritted teeth, and Fred's expression was also very ugly, and he said with a gloomy face.
"If he has been wanting to do this for a long time, why does he still have the nerve to show off his chairman !"
Ron clenched his fists. He didn't lower his voice, and half of the lounge could hear what he said.
"He told me to wait and see! Is this what he wanted me to do? A shameless betrayer, a hypocritical villain!"
Ginny, who was only 11 years old, sat next to her brothers with a sad face and didn't say anything.
Everyone else in the common room wanted to comfort them, and no one would implicate the other Weasley children in Percy's behavior.
The students on the carriage were not so aggressive and would not vent their anger on others. Moreover, whether it was George, Fred, Ron or Ginny, they all got along well with people of the same grade.
"He didn't do anything bad to us." Neville tried to find words to comfort him, "He left quietly, maybe just because he had different ideas from us."
"Different ideas?" Ron sneered. "He's just pursuing his ambition to be superior to others! He always thinks he's different from us, complaining that Mom and Dad are homeless with our family now, and it's better to have at least had the Burrow before! And then he chose to be a running dog of the Ministry of Magic? To be a noble pure-blood who relies on oppression and enslavement to demonstrate his status?"
The people around fell silent. No one could refute what Ron said. He was indeed right.
Even if Percy just left the carriage and didn't do anything , his choice now was enough to make everyone in the school angry.
When he stood by and watched coldly in the Ministry of Magic, and even joined in the enslavement and humiliation of Muggle wizards, what position did he put those Muggle-born students who were his classmates in the carriage before?
This made Ron and other Weasley children feel ashamed. Even if no one in the carriage blamed them, they would not be able to hold their heads up.
After knowing Percy's final destination, John felt a little surprised and a little not surprised.
It's not surprising because under normal plot development, this ambitious and power-hungry boy would have parted ways with his family. In the current situation where the Order of the Phoenix led by Dumbledore has no way out at all, he would naturally feel resentful.
He was a little surprised because, like the professors, he felt something was wrong about Percy simply leaving the carriage like this.
Even without seeing the image left by Percy, because he had discussed it with Dumbledore in advance, John could guess that his departure must be related to the person who sneaked into the carriage.
Even if Percy had some resentment, he didn't have enough courage to rebel. There must be someone behind the scenes fanning the flames and making this happen.
But since he was already able to get in touch with Percy and trick him into betraying him, why not do more?
It's like during wartime, a spy from one side instigates an outstanding student from the other side's military academy to defect, but before he can play a greater role, the spy helps him defect, even before he gains power or even graduates.
Not only will this not bring any benefit, but it will also expose evidence of the existence of spies.
No matter how you look at it, this isn't normal.
Unless the person who sneaked into the carriage had established a deep relationship with Percy and did not want him to continue to suffer for even a day in a place that was inconsistent with his ideas, he did all this simply to help him escape from the sea of suffering.
But this style of painting makes people feel that something is wrong no matter how you look at it. Let's not talk about whether there are such people in the Ministry of Magic and Voldemort. Even if Percy really has a certain degree of disagreement with other students, he would not be so impatient that he can't stay in the carriage for a whole day.
Dumbledore and the others couldn't figure this out, and naturally Jon was even more confused.
But even if they can't figure out the reason, it has already happened.
Percy's rebellion did not cause any substantial impact, but it made the students in the carriage indignant for many days. These young children obviously hated betrayal the most, and no one was willing to mention this name anymore. This even affected the selection of the person to replace Percy as the student male president at the beginning of the new semester. No one wanted to inherit this position.
Finally, a seventh-grade boy, under Mag's guidance, reluctantly became the head boy, and usually assisted the professor in managing student affairs.
Afterwards, Dumbledore did not pretend that the incident had never happened. Since that person was able to incite Percy to rebel, it meant that he could do more on the carriage.
This was different from the incident with Slughorn during Jon's first year. At that time, the undercover agent in the carriage was a complete illusion, but now it was obvious that someone really came in, and it was not arranged by Dumbledore.
Before school started, the carriage found a suitable place to stop twice, allowing all the students to temporarily leave the carriage and the professor to check every room, but to no avail.
That person was like a ghost. If he didn't want others to see him, no one would be able to find him.
After Percy left the carriage, no other accidents occurred even though two consecutive searches were fruitless.
It was as if that man's goal had been achieved, Percy rebelling was what he wanted to do in the end, and then disappearing from the car completely.
But the professors did not relax. They arranged a time to search the carriage for the third time on the evening of September 1st, the day when the freshmen officially entered the school and held a welcome dinner.
They must ensure the safety of this school, because the students living here are their entire hope for the future. If something happens to them, it will not only be Dumbledore who will be free, many people in the Order of the Phoenix will become complete desperadoes.
The professors did not hide this matter, and the students were also informed of the dangers of the carriage. Everyone was required not to act alone, and even going to the bathroom required at least two people to go together to prevent accidents.
It was in this situation where the whole carriage was in a state of panic that this year's welcome dinner began in a field with a beautiful scenery specially selected by Heiger.
The students left the carriage early in the morning and prepared food on the grass. Except for McGonagall who stayed to look after them, all other professors, including Dumbledore, were conducting a third inspection of the carriage.
